…he enemy. In 1942, the tide on the Eastern Front turned with the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Red Army eventually drove the invading Germans from Russia. In 1945, Stalin’s health deteriorated and heart problems forced a two-month vacation. He grew increasingly concerned about possible attempts to oust him from power. Senior political and military figures were monitored by secret police and many (including Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and N…
…t territory and the appalling loss of life in the Second World War. At a party congress in 1961 Khrushchev repeated his attack on Stalin’s memory in open session. Other speakers then rose to denounce Stalin’s crimes. Stalin’s body was removed from its place alongside Lenin in the mausoleum in Red Square, and names such as Stalingrad were changed. Source: historytoday.com…
…mes in 1995, Moscow December 1949: The first meeting between Mao Tse-tung and Joseph Stalin took place only months after Mao’s revolutionary army had taken control of China. Mao asked Stalin to send “volunteer” pilots or secret military detachments to speed up the conquest of Formosa (Taiwan). Stalin only agreed to consider it. Wikipedia Moscow February 1950 – Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung signed a mutual defense treaty which opened what the Unit…
…towards the end of World War II. He was a heavy smoker, suffered from atherosclerosis, had a mild stroke in May 1945 and a severe heart attack in October 1945. In 1961, as the de-Stalinization era was initiated by Nikita Krushchev, Stalin’s body was removed from the mausoleum and buried outside the Kremlin wall….
…Did Joseph Stalin approve Kim Il Sung‘s plan to attack South Korea in June 1950 because he wanted the US to become entangled in a limited conflict in Asia — or was he reassured by Kim that the South would be rapidly overrun before the US could intervene? Whatever the reason, bogging the US down on the Korean Peninsula would allow the USSR to consolidate its control over eastern Europe. Source: Wilson Center…